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H.H.PIE.FEL. 4 COMBINED FABRIC AND THREADS IN OVEBSE AM WORK. No. 544,465. Patented Aug. 13', 1895.

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HENRY H. FEFEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED FABRIC AND THREADS IN OVERSEAM WORK.

SYEGIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 544,465, dated August 13, 1895.

Application filed December 2'7, 1894. Serial No. 533,043. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY H. FEFEL, a citizen ot' the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have inwhich constitute my improved combinationis made to form a loop which passes over the edge of the cloth or other material to be stitched and through a previously-formed loop of the same thread, and also through a loop of each of the other two threads on the under side of the fabric. The other two threads are each made to form a loop, the loop of one thread passing down through the fabric ahead of the loop of the other thread, but both loops being brought into position to allow the descending loop of the first-mentioned thread to pass through them on the under side of the fabric just previous to passing through the previously-formed loop of said first thread, thereby locking the three threads together on the under side of the fabric. The three threads are also locked together on the upper side of the fabric by reason of the fact that the second and third threads are thrown around the first thread as it passes downward over the edge of the fabric while said second and third threads are moving into position to descend again through the cloth in the form of successive loops, as above mentioned. My invention consists in a combination of cloth or other suitable material with the three threads thus looped and locked together.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a top View of a seam made with my improved combination. Fig. 2 is an end view. Fig. 3 is a view of the under side.

It is obvious from the drawings that the threads may be associated together to form the same combination whether the first thread descends over the edge of the fabric or through the same. The drawings, therefore, show both forms of application of the first thread.

The same letters indicate similar parts in the different figures.

Arepresents the first thread; B, the second thread; 0, the third thread. This combination may be made by hand or by machine. It will be noticed from Fig. 3 that the loops of all three of the threads A, B, and C are to be so held onthe under side of the fabric that their bights lie over each other sufficiently to allow the descending thread A (see Fig. 2) to pass through all three of said loops. It will also be noticed that by reason of the thread B being slightly in advance of the thread 0 (see Fig. 1) these two threads lie across each other at regular intervals, as shown in Fig. 1, on the upper side of the fabric.

This improved combination of fabric and threads has this great advantage over other.

overseam stitches: that it can be made by any suitable given method so quickly that double the amount of .overseaming is done in a given time. This extraordinary quickness in producing overseam work arises from the fact that the two threads B and O can be manipulated simultaneously in the same time that' together the tension is comparatively loose and that after the association takes place the threads are drawn taut to make a firm overseam.

I claim- The combination with a piece of cloth or other suitable material of a thread lying along one side of said material and passing over the edge thereof in the form of a loop, which passes through a previously formed loop of said thread and also through loops of two other of a loop, all arranged substantially as shown threads; and two other threads, which pass and for the purposes specified. alternately down through said cloth to the under side thereof, where they are looped HENRY H. FEFEL. 5 with said first thread, and which are thrown Witnesses:

around said first thread on the upper side of J. KENNEDY,

the c1oth,before again descending in the form V. P. PREBLE, Jr. 

